Florida football lost an overtime nail-biter on the road against the Missouri Tigers on Saturday, putting its postseason hopes in peril and resulting in the dismissal of head coach Dan Mullen less than 24 hours after the defeat. The game overall was not what most fans expected, with the defense showing up to play against the best running back in the conference while the offense went completely limp against a poor Mizzou D.
The long story short in this one was that the Gators once again managed to seize defeat from the jaws of victory through a carousel of incompetency from its units. Sure, they were able to keep the Tigers’ running game at bay for the most part, but Florida gave up big plays in the air (and later on on the ground) and could not find any answers in its own once-vaunted ground assault. In the end, it resulted in an overtime loss and the end of the Mullen era.
The staff here at Gators Wire submitted their takes in a Sunday roundtable, which we present in our weekly Good, Bad and Ugly feature. Read below our respective post mortem of the final nail in the head coach’s coffin.